PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

 Iewduh (Market; Khasi/Garo/Nepali) | (95 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Director: Pradip Kurbah

Recipient of the Kim Ji Seok Award, Window on Asian Cinema, Busan International Film Festival, Korea 2019

Pradip Kurbah’s film is about making the journey from the margins of human experience to the core where lie strength and hope. Iewduh is set in Shillong, and takes its title from the large market in Meghalaya’s capital. The movie is set entirely within the winding alleyways of Iewduh, also known as Bara Bazar, and explores life’s big and small truths through a handful of working-class characters.
 

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

House Owner (Tamil) | (111 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)
Director: Lakshmy Ramakrishnan

Set at the backdrop of Chennai Floods (2015), the film narrates the poignant romantic story of an elderly couple during the natural disaster. Vasu’s memory might have faded, but his love for Radha is intact. The story goes back and forth narrating the present and younger romantic days of the couple, with rain and water playing a dominant role in the proceedings.

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

 Hellaro (Gujarati) | (121 min; 2019; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Written & Directed by Abhishek Shah

Recipient of the Golden Lotus Award for Best Feature Film and Winner of the Special Jury Award, National Film Awards 2019; and Best Indian Feature Film, FIPRESCI – India Grand Prix 2020

A visually stunning and conceptually powerful debut by writer-director Abhishek Shah. Set in a remote village in Kutch in 1975, Manjhri, a young girl, is married off to a man from a small village in the Rann of Kutch. She joins a group of women shackled by patriarchal mandates. Their only escape from the suppression is when they go out to fetch water every morning at a distant water body. One day, while on their way to fetch water, they find someone in the middle of the desert and their lives are changed forever.

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

  
Screening of National Award winning feature films in collaboration with Directorate of Film Festivals

  Ek je Chhilo Raja (Bengali) | (147 min; 2018; Blu ray; with English subtitles)

Director: Srijit Mukherji

Recipient of the Best Feature Film in Bengali, National Film Awards 2019; WBFJA Awards for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay, West Bengal Film Journalists Association 2019

The film is based on the intriguing real-life incident of the raja (king) of Bhawal Estate, a large zamindari in modern-day Bangladesh. The heir to Bikrampur Estate and one of three princes, Mahendra Kumar Choudhari, known for his lavish lifestyle and philandering ways, contracts syphilis and is taken to Darjeeling for treatment by his wife Chandrabati Devi. On the way, Mahendra Kumar passes away under mysterious circumstances and is cremated in Darjeeling, following which his brothers inherit Bikrampur Estate. Twelve years later, a Sanyasi, who has a striking resemblance to the supposed dead prince, makes his way to the estate. People begin to take notice of the Sanyasi and news spread that the estate's lost prince is back. Who is this Sanyasi? Is he really the long-gone prince?

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Bengal and its Partition: An Untold Story
By Bhaswati Mukherjee (Rupa Publications, New Delhi: 2021)

Panelists: Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs, Govt. of India; Amb. Rajiv Dogra, writer and former Indian Ambassador to Italy; Shri K.N. Shrivastava, IAS (retd.), Director, IIC; and Ms Bhaswati Mukerjee, author of the book, former Indian Ambassador to The Netherlands

Chair: Shri K. Natwar Singh, former Union Cabinet Minister, and writer

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Rosalind Wilson Memorial Lecture 2014
 
Quantify to Qualify: The Limitations of Threshold Markers on Social Policy (45 min)
Speaker: Prof. Dipankar Gupta, well-known sociologist
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee
 
Organised in collaboration with the Rosalind Wilson Memorial Trust
 
Webcast recording of the IIC programme held on 28 July 2014
 

Through a Different Lens: Should India adopt a more civilisation view of the World (49 min)
Speaker: Dr. Shiv Visvanathan, social scientist, currently Professor at O P Jindal Global University

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

The talk is an attempt to ask a question for contemporary times. The idea of civilisation has been used more to grasp the sacred, the sense of heritage and the idea of tradition. Words like Nationalism, Development and Globalism seem more appropriate for contemporary narratives on statecraft or policy. We dramatize ourselves within the frame-work of the nation-state with its accompanying ideas of citizenship, boundary, security and contract. This lecture suggests that may be a civilisation view of India is more relevant than a nationalist perspective. It considers a few thought experiments like the idea of South Asia, Climate Change and the notion of Sustainability to develop its argument

Webcast recording of the programme held on 14th January 2017

Speaker: Prof. John Ellis, King’s College London and CERN Theory Division, Geneva

Paul Gauguin's famous painting Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? deals with some of the most fundamental questions of the Universe. Eminent CERN theoretician Professor John Ellis explains how the Large Hadron Collider might address Gauguin's questions as seen by particle physics and cosmology.

In particle physics Gauguin's questions can be interpreted as: What is the status of particle physics, what may lie just beyond our current understanding of it, and just what is the `Theory of Everything'? In cosmology: What were the earliest stages of the Universe like, what is it made of today, and what is its future? Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Geneva are hoping to provide some of the answers in the near future

Collaboration: University of Edinburgh

Webcast recording of the programme held on 15 February 2013